Great Character Quotes - Page 4

• Everyone in this world is dealt a different hand - some better, some worse than others - but what's more important is how you play that hand. This is what builds character. And with great character comes great reward.

  Christine Ha

  Character, Play, Hands

  "Interview with Christine Ha, MasterChef Winner, Writer, and Chef". American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Interview, www.afb.org.

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• I am delighted to join Doctor Who and to be working with this incredible team. Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing.

  Keeley Hawes

  Fun, Team, Character

  "Why Keeley Hawes is the perfect choice for a Doctor Who villain" by Dan Martin, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2014.

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• I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

  Dominic Chianese

  Character, Mean, Guy

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• [We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Wise, Character, People

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• I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

  Alexandra Sokoloff

  Ambition, Character, Eye

  "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

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• Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Determination, Character, Gay

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• Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Honesty, Character

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Oct 28, 2012

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Book, Character, Past

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• That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

  Matt Lauria

  Writing, Character, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• When it's all said and done, I'm very, very glad to work in this business, but that's exactly what it is. It's a business, and I get to do the fun half of it. I get paid to pretend. I get to play really great characters. And, we have such a wonderful writer. She just knows people so intricately, and it's so fun to be able to act out her words.

  Angie Harmon

  Fun, Character, Play

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes

  George Tillman, Jr.

  Character, Together, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian descent, but they called him the "Mad Potter of Biloxi." I'd love to do a great character study and comedy about that guy's life. That would be my dream role. I know it's an oddball thing, but it's true. He lived at the turn of the century, in the 1800s.

  Lance Henriksen

  Dream, Character, Names

  Source: collider.com

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• In every soap, at the end of the season, relationships end and people leave the show. You look at characters and evaluate whether they're great characters or not, and whether they have a future in the show. And we did all of that.

  Robert Greenblatt

  Character, People, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.

  Ang Lee

  Character, Years, Two

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I came to filmmaking as an actor looking for great characters and great opportunities, both of which are kind of hard to come by. It turns out I really love the process. And, it's exciting to be able to take my career by the reigns and make things happen for myself. Hopefully, in doing so, more opportunities will become available to me.

  Katie Aselton

  Character, Opportunity, Careers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.

  Richard LaGravenese

  Character, Want, Moral

  Source: collider.com

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• Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Perseverance, Character, Mean

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.186

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• I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And really good storytelling. And when people ask me what the story is, I say it's really several stories really. They're intermeshed.

  Matt Dillon

  Character, Long, People

  "Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 5, 2005.

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• It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

  John Lasseter

  Memorable, Character, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

  Ron Howard

  Character, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

  Richard Cecil

  God, Character, Obedience

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1857). “Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character”, p.244

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• I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a great emotional need? Do they overcome great emotional obstacles? Is it a fantastic story? I didn't set out to be a political activist. I'm just a human being who's moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.

  Kimberly Peirce

  Heart, Character, Love Is

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• With Aquaman I worked with such talented guys, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado. And he's a great character. I mean, Aquaman's a great character, he just hasn't been positioned in a role of importance in a long, long time. We tried to do that in this series; give him this platform because he deserves it, and give a very different perception of Aquaman while at the same time staying true to who the character is. Showing his power level, his fortitude, his sense of honor and commitment and responsibility, and hopefully showing everything that makes a hero a hero.

  Geoff Johns

  Hero, Character, Mean

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.

  Bun B

  Lying, Moving, Character

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